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clessg

joined 4/2/2014, 5:43:20 PM has 6366 karma

Full-stack engineer in Moncton, Canada. Focused primarily on Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView nowadays. Also JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Svelte, Go, Postgres, MySQL, and PHP. Dabble in Rust and Zig sometimes (but never for anything serious, of course).

Contact: chris <at> crystala <dot> io

Recent Posts

Mexican Navy Ship Crashes into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge
by clessgon 5/18/2025, 2:45:16 AM with 1 comment
Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM
by clessgon 5/15/2025, 5:14:28 PM with 8 comments
Trinitite
by clessgon 4/27/2025, 7:31:19 PM with 1 comment
Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9k Years (2010)
by clessgon 4/13/2025, 11:45:49 PM with 0 comments
AI GPU Clusters, from Your Laptop, with Livebook
by clessgon 9/24/2024, 6:00:05 PM with 1 comment
9/11 in Realtime
by clessgon 9/11/2024, 6:34:48 AM with 6 comments
LiveView Native Is Here
by clessgon 9/10/2024, 2:21:58 AM with 0 comments
Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico
by clessgon 9/7/2024, 4:14:18 AM with 9 comments
Scaling Your Phoenix App in Elixir with Flame
by clessgon 9/7/2024, 2:50:15 AM with 1 comment
In lawsuit, Logan Paul argues Coffeezilla defamed him with CryptoZoo criticism
by clessgon 7/20/2024, 5:22:46 PM with 1 comment
LiveView Is Not a Zero-JS Framework, It's a Zero-Boring-JS Framework
by clessgon 6/17/2024, 1:42:36 PM with 0 comments
Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
by clessgon 6/12/2024, 11:13:52 AM with 21 comments
Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels
by clessgon 6/8/2024, 11:42:30 AM with 0 comments
Web apps have client and server state
by clessgon 6/7/2024, 3:27:44 PM with 0 comments
Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.
by clessgon 5/29/2024, 12:38:16 PM with 10 comments
Improve your Dev Stack with process-compose
by clessgon 5/10/2024, 8:30:32 PM with 0 comments
Experimental gradual set-theoretic types in Elixir
by clessgon 5/6/2024, 10:46:28 PM with 0 comments
Elixir 1.17 type inference of struct and map fields
by clessgon 4/30/2024, 9:26:53 PM with 0 comments
Match Operator Guards in Elixir
by clessgon 4/18/2024, 5:01:11 PM with 0 comments
Pokemon Red/Blue Map
by clessgon 12/25/2023, 1:13:09 PM with 0 comments
Elixir v1.16 Released
by clessgon 12/22/2023, 5:15:39 PM with 2 comments
What's New in Elixir 1.16
by clessgon 12/20/2023, 5:09:47 PM with 0 comments
Burrito: Cross-platform, single-binary Elixir deployments
by clessgon 12/14/2023, 6:28:37 PM with 0 comments
The Oldest Voices We Can Still Hear [video]
by clessgon 12/9/2023, 1:31:15 AM with 0 comments
Visualizing Pokémon Red and Blue Connections (2020)
by clessgon 11/29/2023, 5:32:54 PM with 6 comments
Parsing Pokémon Red and Blue Maps (2020)
by clessgon 11/26/2023, 9:02:35 PM with 0 comments
Explosion at Rainbow Bridge closes all WNY border crossings between U.S., Canada
by clessgon 11/22/2023, 6:29:51 PM with 0 comments
Ergonomic Remote Development
by clessgon 11/7/2023, 1:50:22 PM with 0 comments